Re: PXE boot over NFS please

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sun, 1 Jun 2014 20:53:27 +0300
Beeblebrox <address@hidden> пишет:

> In a previous discussion on this list, I was advised grub does not boot
> over NFS, and that it must use TFTP only.
> 
> I had asked the questionn because of this article [
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html) where it states:
> 
> gpxelinux.0 from the SYSLINUX project will be used as a PXE boot loader
> 
> XUbuntu With NFS: This menu entry sets the netboot and nfsroot options.
> "label xubuntu \   menu label XUbuntu \   kernel
> images/xubuntu/casper/vmlinuz \ append boot=casper netboot=nfs \
> nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/usr/tftpboot/images/xubuntu \  initrd
> images/xubuntu/casper/initrd.lz"
> 
> I just wanted to advise that, although I have not tried it, SysLinux seems
> able to boot over NFS.

Where Linux kernel mounts its root filesystem from is hardly related to
how bootloader obtains Linux kernel. 

>                        I hope one day Grub will be able to as well.
> 

Implementing NFS client in grub is a lot of work for very little gain,
especially if you are speaking about PXE which mandates working tftp
server. What exact functionality is missing right now?

> Thanks and Regards.